Candeland is best known for directing music videos and television commercials. He contributed animation for music videos by The Gorillaz and collaborated with Paul McCartney on The Beatles: Rock Band video game.

Mr Toad's Wild Ride, inspired by Kenneth Grahame's 1908 book The Wind in the Willows, is one of the longest-running attractions at Disneyland, having been in operation since 1955.

Disney distributed a direct-to-video film based on the ride in 1996, starring Steve Coogan and the surviving members of Monty Python. The studio is seeking a writer to pen a screenplay for the new adaptation.